frameworks - How to Implement URL Routing in PHP

Question

How to implement URL Routing in PHP.

Answer 1

If you use Apache you can do the URL routing via mod_rewrite.

Small example:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^(dir1)/?(path2)? main.php?dir=$1&path=$2

That'll have any request like

http://yoursite.com/dir1/path1 

served by

http://yoursite.com/main.php?dir=dir1&path=path2

More examples here.

The other alternative have every request redirect to a single php file

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule (.*) main.php?request=$1

and then to do it in code, where you can use a similar approach, by having a set of regular expressions that are matched by some code and then redirected via header() or just internally.